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characteristic of most wild animals. We see in our dogs, how they vary in timidity & in its opposite courage. Everyone knows how liable many most animals are to furious rage, & how plainly they exhibit it. Many anecdotes, probably true, have been given by various writers on the revenge, sometimes long delayed & artful, of animals: the account Rengger & Brehm *(3) give instances with give precise statements to this effect with respect to American & African monkeys. The love of a dog for his master is notorious; & as

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remarks Whewell *(4) remarks: "who that reads the touching instances of maternal affection related so often of the women of all nations, and of the females of all animals, can doubt that the principle of action is the same in the two cases?" though enlightened in one of then by the rational faculty?" We see this affection exhibited in the most trifling details; thus Rengger observed an American monk monkey, a Cebus, carefully driving away the flies which that

plagued her infant; Duvaucel saw a Hylobates washing the faces of her young in a stream. So intense is the their grief of the mother for the loss of their her her young, that Brehm who kept many it invariably caused the death of the many